Sankt Johann (Kammlach)

Saint Johann Community Kammlach Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	661 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	87754
Area code :	08261
Location of Sankt Johann in Bayern
St. Johann in the Unterallgäu

Sankt Johann is a part of the Upper Swabian community of Kammlach in Bavarian Swabia . It is located about four kilometers west of Unterkammlach and, with the exception of the west side, is surrounded by the Gall Forest . It is connected to the neighboring towns by local roads.

history

The first documentary mention was in 1167, when Abbot Isingrim von Ottobeuren donated a relic to the pilgrimage church of St. Johann . In 1437 Rudolf von Hohentahann sold goods and rights in Sankt Johann to the Heiliggeistspital in Mindelheim . This kept the property in place until secularization . The forest law and the upper jurisdiction belonged to the rule Mindelheim , parishly the place belonged to the market Erkheim . The church, mentioned in 1679, was demolished in 1818, the private chapel St. Johannes Baptista with the choir possibly taken over from the previous church in 1918 due to dilapidation.

literature

• Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Unterallgäu district, Mindelheim 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1038 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 31). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 420.